Samson Munn

Lebenslauf / Résumé / Curriculum Vitae

14 October 2008

 

Contact Information

 

Genocide and Peace

Medicine

 Other

Electronic Address & URL

Boston @ TheFoundationTrust . org

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smunn @ tuftsmedicalcenter . org

 

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Postal Address

 

Department of Radiology, Floating 438A

Tufts Medical Center

800 Washington Street, Box # 299

Boston MA 02111-1552

U. S. A.

  
   

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617.244.4744

617.636.8323

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Date and Place of Birth

29 March 1952, New York

Citizenships

Legal Name

Samson Munn

Full Legal Name

Charles Samson Munn

Education

Postgraduate Training

Medical Licensures

Board Certifications

Professional Memberships

Present Positions

Genocide and Peace

Founder, Facilitator and Participant: The Austrian Encounter; 1995 on. The Austrian Encounter is a non profit, non therapeutic group who meet to counter racism and to stem genocide by exploring and discussing personally and sometimes publicly their families' histories, consequent ramifications, etc. TAE comprises ~ thirteen people from Austria, the U.S., and Israel: daughters and sons of Austrian Holocaust victims who meet approximately each year (usually in Vienna) with sons and daughters of Austrian Nazi perpetrators. http://nach.ws

Participant: To Reflect and Trust; 1992 on. To Reflect and Trust is a non profit, non therapeutic group who meet to counter racism and to stem genocide by exploring and discussing personally and sometimes publicly their families' histories, consequent ramifications, etc. TRT (founded in 1992 and facilitated by Dan Bar-On, Ph.D., Ben Gurion University of the Negev) originally comprised ~ eighteen people from Germany, the U.S. and Israel (sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors who meet approximately each year or year-and-a-half in several different countries with daughters and sons of Nazi perpetrators), and now also includes others active in Northern Ireland, in Palestine or in South Africa.

Participant: The Goldner Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide, 1996 on. The Goldner Symposium is an invited, international group of thirty-six genocide and Holocaust scholars (primarily) who meet every other year in Wroxton, near Oxford (England), in an effort to study and to intervene against racism and genocide based on lessons learned from the Holocaust. It was founded by Leonard Grob, Ph.D. (Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Henry Knight, Ph.D. (then of University of Oklahoma, now of Keene State College (New Hampshire)).

Medicine

Tufts Medical Center 800 Washington Street, Boston MA 02111-1552

  • Associate Radiologist-in-Chief (Vice Chief); starting 10 June 2008
  • Member, Credentials Committee; starting September 2008

Lecturer: School of Medicine, Tufts University; 15 March 2004 on. Teaching responsibilities regarding radiology residents, medical students and fellows. 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA 02111-1817. (Associate Professorship pending; "Vice Chair" title already informally and functionally in place.)

Past Positions

Genocide and Peace

Co-Founder and Corporate President: The Foundation Trust; 2000 - 2005. The Foundation Trust was a non profit, charitable Massachusetts corporation devoted to communication, dialogue and education after genocide, other heinous human behavior, or mass or major violence, and to coordinate and network activities of other individuals and organizations related to the same, world-wide. http://TheFoundationTrust.org

Panel Moderator: Remembering For the Future 2000: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide; 16 July 2000: London, England. The panel title was Why Dialogue? and it included four speakers in addition to the moderator. The audience comprised ~ 60 Europeans with a personal or professional interest in the Holocaust and its aftereffects.

Facilitator: Towards Understanding and Healing; November 2000 and 2001: Lusty Beg, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A group of ~ 28 and ~ 36 (2000 and 2001, respectively) Northern Irish and British men and women whose personal and family histories have been directly involved in or poignantly impacted by "The Troubles." Amongst others, the group included former Catholic, Nationalist and Protestant, Unionist paramilitaries and British army personnel, and/or victims, as well as parents and other family members.

Participant: Boston Jewish—German Dialogue; 1994–6. Newton, Massachusetts. One of a group of approximately 12–20 people of German and/or Jewish descent who met (and still meet) on a monthly, evening basis for discussion.

Participant, and Corporate Founder, President and Treasurer: To Reflect and Trust. Samson Munn founded TRT's non profit, charitable, former Massachusetts corporation in 1992 and served as its President from December 1995 until September 2000, and as its Treasurer for several years thereafter. [Regarding TRT, see "Present Positions", above.]

Participant: Our Dialogue. 1998 meeting in the States and 1999 meeting in the Alps.

Medicine

Tufts University, School of Medicine 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA 02111-1817. Teaching responsibilities regarding radiology residents, medical students and fellows.

  • Assistant Professor: 1 October 1987 - 14 March 2004
  • Instructor: 1 July 1982 - 30 September 1986.

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region Headquartered in Oakland, California.

  • Chair (Radiology), Breast Care Task Force: November 2006 - 5 June 2008
  • Member, Mammography Chiefs Committee: autumn 2004 - 5 June 2008
  • Member, Medical Imaging Chiefs Committee: 1 May 2004 - 11 July 2007
  • Member, Imaging Utilization Committee: autumn 2004 - 5 June 2008
    • Member, Executive Sub-Committee, Imaging Utilization Committee: June 2005 - 5 June 2008
  • Member, Medical Imaging Technology Committee: 1 May 2004 - 11 July 2007

Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center 401 Bicentennial Way, Santa Rosa CA 95403-2149

  • President of the Medical Staff: 1 July 2007 to 5 June 2008
  • Staff Radiologist, Department of Medical Imaging: 1 May 2004 - 5 June 2008
  • Chief, Department of Medical Imaging: 1 May 2004 - 11 July 2007
  • Section Chief, Mammograpy, Department of Radiology: 1 May 2004 - March 2008

American College of Radiology

  • Reviewer: 2002 - 2004: ACR Computed Tomography Accreditation Program.
  • Reviewer: 2002 - 2004: ACR Radiography/Fluoroscopy Accreditation Program.
  • Representative: 2003 - 2008 to the ARRT CT Examination Committee (see below).

American Registry of Radiologic Technologists 1255 Northland Drive, St. Paul, Minnesota 55120-1155

  • Member and American College of Radiology Representative, Examination Committee for Computed Tomography: 2003 - 2008

New England Medical Center Hospitals (now known as Tufts Medical Center); then at: Box # 299 — Floating 4, 750 Washington Street, Boston MA 02111-1533

  • Staff Radiologist: July 1997 - 14 March 2004
  • Interim Division Chief, Nuclear Medicine: New England Medical Center Hospitals; 1 January – 1 March 2002

Radiologist: Lemuel Shattuck Hospital; July 1997 - 7 April 2004. Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 750 Morton Street, Boston MA 02130

  • President, Medical Staff; April 2000 - 7 April 2004. (Elected twice by the medical staff.)
  • Vice President, Medical Staff; April 1998 - March 2000. (Elected by the medical staff.)
  • Chair, Medical Executive Committee; April 2000 - 7 April 2004.
  • Chief, Department of Radiology; September 1998 - 14 March 2004.

Radiologist: Waltham Hospital, Waltham, Massachusetts; 1 July 2002 - 29 July 2003

  • Chief, Department of Radiology

New England Baptist Hospital 125 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston MA 02130

  • Staff Radiologist July 1983 to May 1997
  • Section Chief of Nuclear Medicine
  • Member, Cancer Committee
  • Member, Radiation Safety Committee
  • Moderator, Thoracic Conference
  • Radiation Safety Officer

Visiting Consultant in Radiology: School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, June 1983

Publications

Genocide and Peace

Dialogue Toward Agenocide: Encountering the Other in the Context of Genocide Munn, S. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 2006 (July); 46(3):281–302.

An Exercise in Listening Munn, S. The Jewish Magazine December 2000; 38: http://www.jewishmag.com/38mag/listening/listening.htm .

Einführung in die Arbeit der Nachkommen von Opfern und Tätern ["Introduction to the Work of Descendents of Survivors and of Perpetrators"] Wolff, Roswitha; Munn, Samson; "Scholz, Sabine"; Kuhl, Dirk; and Goschalk, Julie in Staffa, Christian and Klinger, Katherine, Die Gegenwart der Geschichte des Holocaust ["The Presence of the History of the Holocaust"](Berlin: Institut für vergleichende Geschichtswissenschaften, 1998, ISBN 3-9805206-1-7) 59-70.

The Austrian Encounter Munn, Samson in Kimenyi, Alexandre and Scott, Otis, Anatomy of Genocide: State-Sponsored Mass-Killings in the Twentieth Century (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001, ISBN 0-7734-7600-8) 321-337.

Choosing among Special People — The Northern Ireland Encounters Munn, Samson in Bar-On, Dan, Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a Way to Work through Political and Collective Hostilities (Hamburg: edition Körber-Stiftung, 2000, ISBN 3-89684-030-4) 67-70.

The Austrian Encounter Munn, Samson in Lappin, Eleonore and Schneider, Bernhard, Die Lebendigkeit der Geschichte. (Dis-)Kontinuitäten in Diskursen über den Nationalsozialismus [The Aliveness of History. (Dis-)Continuations in Discourses Regarding National Socialism] (St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2001, ISBN 3-86110-285-4) 417-437.

To Reflect and Trust — Aims of the Project and My Personal Involvement [erroneously entitled "'To Reflect and Trust' (TRT). Commitments and aims of the project" in the published version] Munn, Samson in Bar-On, Dan, Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a Way to Work through Political and Collective Hostilities (Hamburg: edition Körber-Stiftung, 2000, ISBN 3-89684-030-4) 28-29.

A Great Deal of Pressure, Munn, Samson in Bar-On, Dan, Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a Way to Work through Political and Collective Hostilities (Hamburg: edition Körber-Stiftung, 2000, ISBN 3-89684-030-4) 125-126.

The Austrian Encounter, http://nach.ws/SummarySamson.html [not peer-reviewed]

Grete Samson, http://TheFoundationTrust.org/Grete.html [not peer-reviewed]

Agenocide, http://TheFoundationTrust.org/agenocide.htm [not peer-reviewed]

Medicine

Ovary Volume: A Reconsideration of "Ovarian Volume Related to Age" Munn S. Gynecologic Oncology 2007; 109:146-147.

Re: Value of ECG-gated Thallium-201 Dipyridamole SPECT in Borderline Cases of Myocardial Perfusion Acta Cardiol Sin 2006;22:24-30 Munn S. Acta Cardiologica Sinica 2006;22:117.

The Way to a Man's Heart is Through His Stomach: Much "Diaphragmatic" Attenuation is Likely Gastric, and Effervescent Granules Enhance Cardiac Imaging Munn S. European Journal of Radiology 2004; 52:271–275 (also available electronically: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2004.02.011). Erratum: E J R 2005; 54:316.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Chest X-Rays Acquired Using a Digital Camera for Low-Cost Teleradiology Szot A, Jacobson FL, Munn S et al. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2004; 73:65-73.

Displaced Uterus Simulating Aneurysm on a Multiphase Bone Scan Rencus T, Smith J, Munn S and Elgazzar A. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2003; 28(7):574-576.

Imaging HIV/AIDS: Body Cavity-Based Lymphoma Oza UD and Munn S. AIDS Patient Care and STDs 2003 (Mar); 17(3):129-132.

Imaging HIV/AIDS: Burkitt's Lymphoma Munn S. AIDS Patient Care and STDs 2002(August); 16(8):395-399.

Pseudoazygos Lobe Caused By Lymph Node Pneumatocele Munn S. Journal of Thoracic Imaging 2002 (Oct); 17(4):310-313.

Opinion: When Should Men Undergo Mammography? Munn S. American Journal of Roentgenology 2002; 178:1419-1420.

Pictorial Review of Common and Uncommon Radiological Manifestations in AIDS Oza UD and Munn CS. Radiology (Supplement)2001; 221(P):684.

Doc, I don't wanna know! : Patient-Requested Noninformed Consent Munn S. American Journal of Roentgenology 2001; 177(2): 473.

Rubber Products that Shrink Due to the Application of Energy and Hypo-Allergenic Rubbery Products Munn CS and Cohen RE. United States Patent and Trademark Office 24 April 2001; patent number 6,221,447 B1.

Case Report: Malignant Mesothelioma of the Tunica Vaginalis Testis Tyagi G, Munn CS, Kiser LC et al. Urology 1989; 34 (2): 102-104.

Young and Premenopausal Adult Ovary Volume: US Determination Munn CS, Kiser LC, Wetzner SM and Baer JE. Radiology 1986; 159: 731-732.

Pleural Lipoma: Diagnosis by Computed Tomography Epler GR, McLoud, TC, Munn CS and Colby TV. Chest 1986; 90: 265-268.

Complications of Arthrography Newberg AH, Munn CS and Robbins AH. Radiology 1985; 155: 605-606.

Computed Tomography of the Lung, Pleura, and Chest Wall Pugatch RD, Munn CS and Faling J. Clinics in Chest Medicine 1984; 5 (2): 265-280.

Duplex Imaging: New Diagnostic Applications Wetzner SM, Kiser LC and Munn CS. Radiology 1983; 149-(P): 72.

Differential Growth of Allogeneic Lymphocytes and Bone Marrow Cells in Irradiated NZB Mice Eastcott JW, Bennett M, Munn C and Broitman SA. Federation Proceedings 1977(1 March);36(3):1225.

Documentary Films Genocide and Peace

Children of the Third Reich Timewatch, B.B.C. (London), © 1993; produced by Catrine Clay. Samson Munn was one of four highlighted participants in a group of eighteen: daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors who meet for profound encounters with sons and daughters of German Nazis. This fifty-minute documentary has been broadcast nation-wide in the U.K. (several times on the B.B.C.), in the U.S. (several times on the Arts and Entertainment and The History Channel cable-TV channels), in Holland, in Australia, in Canada, in France, in Israel, in Turkey, and in other countries.

Eine unmögliche Freundschaft ["An Impossible Friendship"] Provobis (Berlin), © 1998; produced by Michael Richter. The film documented the friendship between Samson Munn (the son of two concentration camp survivors) and Dirk Kuhl (the son of the Gestapo commandant of Braunschweig). This forty-eight-minute film has been broadcast several times in Germany and in Austria.

Out of the Ashes Timewatch, B.B.C. (London), © 1995; produced by Catrine Clay. This forty-eight-minute film examined Samson Munn and two others, and has been broadcast nation-wide in the U.K. (several times on the B.B.C.), in the U.S. (several times on the Arts and Entertainment and The History Channel cable-TV channels), in Israel, in Holland, and in other countries.

Radio Interviews Genocide and Peace

Encounter between Children of Survivors and Children of Perpetrators [during a religious affairs program on] B.B.C. Radio 4 © 1996; 2 June 1996. Samson Munn was one of two people interviewed (live) for about five minutes in this Sunday morning program broadcast throughout the U.K.

Second Generation Reconciliation Outlook, B.B.C. (London), 10 November 1993, © 1993; produced by Kate Howells. Samson Munn was one of two people interviewed in-depth (live) for seven minutes by John Waite in this radio, news magazine program, broadcast throughout the U.K.

Children of the War Today at One, Blue Danube Radio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian National Radio, Vienna), 13 March 1995, © 1995; produced by Jane Duke. Samson Munn was interviewed (live) for eleven minutes by Hal Rock about the creation of The Austrian Encounter, then merely incipient, in this Austrian, English language, radio program.

The Austrian Encounter Deutsche Welle © summer 1997; produced by Silvia Pfeifer. Samson Munn and a couple of the participants in The Austrian Encounter were interviewed in Vienna for an English language program on national German radio.

Encounter between Children of Survivors and Children of Perpetrators The Stu Taylor Show, WSSH (Boston), Talk America Radio Network, broadcast 24 December 1993, © 1993. Samson Munn was the sole guest, interviewed in-depth (live) by Stu Taylor in this hour-long, call-in, talk-radio program, broadcast nationally.

Die Lebendigkeit der Geschichte ["The Aliveness of History"] Bayerischer Rundfunk © November 1999; produced by Nicole Ruchlak. Recorded in Vienna and broadcast from Munich, Samson Munn and a colleague were interviewed about their friendship and about their international work in dialogue.

Newspaper Interviews Genocide and Peace

L'impensable dialogue: Les mémoires de la Shoah – IV ["The Unthinkable Dialogue: The Memories of the Holocaust – IV"] Le Monde (Paris), 28 April 1995, page 16, by Annick Cojean. Samson Munn was one of five sources interviewed and quoted in this full-page article, the fourth in a series.

Anreden gegen die Schweigespirale: Wie Kinder von hohen Nazis und Nachkommen der Holocaust-Opfer in London versuchten, einander zu begegnen ["Arguing Against the Spiral of Silence: How Children of Major Nazis and Descendents of Holocaust Victims Sought to Encounter One Another in London."] Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) 4 June 1996, page 3 (a favored, prestigious position in German newspapers), by Birgit Weidinger. Samson Munn was one of three quoted sources in this article, in one of Germany's most respected and widely read newspapers.

Kinder des Holocaust: Reden gegen das Tabu ["Children of the Holocaust: Talking Contrary to the Tabu."] Passauer Neue Presse (Passau), 21 August 1995, page 3 (a favored, prestigious position in German newspapers), by Silvia Pfeifer. Samson Munn was the primary source for this 1/3- to 1/2-page article, which very favorably discussed The Austrian Encounter in depth in the (then) newly more liberal, main newspaper of a Bavarian city known for its right-wing views and anti-Semitism.

Brückenschlag der Kinder: Das Schweigen durchbrechen ["The Children's Bridge-Building: To Break Through the Silence."] Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin), 26 August 1995, by Jola Merten. Samson Munn and two daughters of Holocaust survivors are described and quoted in this article. The three were in Berlin for a meeting, and were interviewed because of their mere presence in Berlin and because of their involvements in encounters with sons and daughters of Nazi perpetrators.

Belastete Begegnung: "Es liegt nicht an uns, unsere Eltern zu versöhnen" ["Weighty Encounter: 'It Isn't Up to Us to Reconcile Our Parents'."] Neue illustrierte Welt (Vienna), August/September 1995, page 17, by Brigitte Halbmayr. Samson Munn was the primary source for this article, a thoughtful and very positive description of the first Austrian Encounter, which appeared in a Jewish, Viennese newspaper.

Younger Germany grapples with the sins of its fathers San Jose Mercury News (San Jose) April 1997, by Ken Garfield. Quoting and discussing Samson Munn among others, this article discussed a major meeting (entitled The Presence of the Holocaust in the Present) held in Berlin in January 1997, addressing post-Holocaust dialogue.

Public Presentations Genocide and Peace

Sixteen to twenty: often as part of a panel but several times individually, usually in the U.S., in Germany, or in Israel, but also in England, in Poland, in Palestine and in Canada. Presentations have been made to public, general audiences interested in genocide, in the Holocaust, in Germany, in Jews, and/or in related matters, and to professional, psychology audiences, ranging in size from 12 to 1200. They have spanned June 1992 to December 2005. A typical sampling would include:

Keynote speaker at the 2005 Reverend James E. Coffee Human Rights Awards ceremony, 8 December 2005, Santa Rosa, California. Sponsored by the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights, Listening for a Change and Volunteer Center of Sonoma County. An audience of approximately 200 heard the keynote presentation, entitled Power of Dialogue in Social Change.

One of two keynote speakers at a conference entitled Storytelling as the Vehicle?, 29 November 2005, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Sponsored and conducted by Healing Through Remembering. Attended by ~ 150 individuals representing a large array of groups working in Northern Ireland in the fields of oral history, dialogue, historiography, memorials, testimony, conflict resolution, and trauma studies and care. Talk title was Storytelling and Encounter.

One of two who jointly presented The Foundation Trust 8 February 2001, in New York, to an audience of ~130 at a panel conference entitled Racism, Hatred and Reconciliation at the United Nations' NGO Committee on Mental Health. Over 40 NGOs were represented in the audience, as well as numerous governmental organizations, academics, etc.

Chaired a panel entitled Children of Victims and of Perpetrators – Why Work Together? before an audience of ~100 of the ~900 attending the opening day of Remembering for the Future 2000: International Holocaust Survivors' and Second Generation Gathering, 16 July 2000, in London.

Final plenary co-presenter of Subsequent Generations' Dialogue and Friendship before a public audience of ~ 550 at The Presence of the Absence / The Aliveness of History : International Conference for Descendants of Survivors and of Perpetrators of National Socialism, 1-3 September 1999, in Vienna. (Also the moderator of a workshop and of a focus group at the same conference.)

One of two who were jointly invited to present Grand Rounds: Second Generation, Post-Holocaust Dialogue, at the Department of Social Work, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 18 February 1998. The audience comprised ~ 40 professionals in social work and psychotherapy in a prestigious Boston hospital department.

Individually presented The Austrian Encounter at the:

Individually presented the film Eine unmögliche Freundschaft and discussed related projects to an audience of ~90 at the Goethe Institut, Boston, the evening of 24 September 1998.

One of two who jointly presented Opposite Sides of a Shared History 2 June 1996, in London. It was a Sunday evening presentation of about 2 1/2 hours length, open to the public, produced by the Second Generation Trust (London) and the Institut für vergleichende Geschichtswissenschaften (Berlin), held at the Royal Geographic Society. It was attended by a broad audience of ~ 500, including much of the German population living in and near London, and was covered very positively by the British and German press.

Foreign Language

German: granted Zertifikat, Deutsche als Fremdsprache, certificate # PH332609, May 1998, Goethe Institut, Boston.

Conference Organized Genocide and Peace

International Conference of Jewish—German Intensive Dialogue Groups held in Boston, 26–28 July 1996. This was the first "council" or "networking" meeting of representatives of such groups, and was organized and chaired by Samson Munn (and conceived by Dan Bar-On). There were thirteen representatives present from twelve dialogues or dialogue types, functioning in eight countries (Germany, Israel, Austria, the U.S., England, France, Russia and Canada). (Two follow-up networking meetings have taken place since then, in Berlin and Vienna.)

Television Interview Medicine

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Good Day!, WCVB (local, Boston affiliate of U.S., national network), broadcast 28 January 1988, © 1988. Dr. Munn was interviewed by Marilyn Griffin, M.D.; he discussed M.R.I. in general terms, in the medical segment of a daytime, television news magazine program, at a time when M.R.I. was early in the progression of its clinical use.

References

Catrine Clay, Producer, Timewatch B.B.C. Documentaries, London, England

Annick Cojean, Le Monde, Paris, France

Viola B. Georgi, Ph.D., formerly Anti-Bias Education Coordinator, American Jewish Committee, Berlin, Germany; now Professor of Intercultural Education, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

Leonard Grob, Ph.D., Goldner Symposium and Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Rafeeque Bhadelia, M.D.; Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School ; Chief, Clinical Operations, Neuroradiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston MA 02215-5400, U.S.A.

Patents

Regarding various processes, formulations and products that are rubber or rubbery, absent the tree-protein allergen of latex, and optionally heat-shrinkable near or at body temperature: US 6,221,447 and 6,946,172; German 297 17 772.9; and, others elsewhere.

Also, several others are pending in Japan, in Hong Kong, and in the U.S., and approved in Europe. One of these is a method of radionuclide cardiac imaging in which a common artifact is easily avoided (see USPTO # 10/894,390, PCT # US10/894,390 and related filings).